@pre@boing.world2025-10-18 10:48:22
Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-12-18 02:40:34
Here's my Steam Replay link. I figure this is better viewing than anything that might be going on currently.
#Gaming #ShareYourGames #SteamReplay
@axbom@axbom.me2025-10-14 18:30:38
Vet inte om du läst Balkan Insights granskning från september 2023, annars kan jag rekommendera den.
Den ger en hel del insyn i vem det är som kan gynnas ekonomiskt om förslaget skulle röstas fram. En nyckelspelare som Ylva Johansson haft mycket kontakt med innan och efter förslaget lades fram, och som varit en framt…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-10-16 16:25:19
Currently sitting in a little park near the auto shop I've been going to for the better part of a decade. Which, definitely still a Protip: search out the best indie shop you can find in your area. Stay away from the chains. My credit card balance might be about to eat a fat bill (thank fuck I have the option even tho I hate it lol) but it's worth the money for the piece of mind knowing a real pro did the work.
Was an exciting short trip over here from home 😀 Basically 5mph un…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-07 14:11:21
We've made it through another work week, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Suspected foreign actor likely accessed lawmakers' emails and chat logs in CBO hack,
--Italian consultant is latest public victim of Paragon spyware,
--WaPo was caught up in Oracle E-Business Suite breach,
--Landfall spyware targeted Galaxy phones in campaign,
--Site-…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-12-04 22:17:59
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Particle driver control?
NAPIER: Particle driver right.
PLAXTON: Well you'd better double check. I'm going to take the drive up to twenty-five percent today.
NAPIER: In here, Doctor?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/232 B7B…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2025-10-04 14:34:10
TiPP #Lausanne #PhotoElysée
Eindrückliche Ausstellung im 'Le Musée Photo Elysée' "Gen Z. Ein neuer Blick", bis zum 01. Februar 2026. Über 60 Fotograf:innen von überall her, die der Generation Z angehören, also zwischen 1995 und 2010 geboren sind.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 20:41:14
I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-11-27 14:02:19
My usual sentiment for this US holiday: If you're observing it in some way, I hope it's a good day with family, or a friendsgiving if family isn't an option.
If you aren't, have a good Thursday. Ignore the doom for a day. Don't worry, it'll still be there tomorrow.
As for me, I'm going to the parent's where I will be avoiding most of the food (many thyroid surge triggers so I gotta be careful) and upgrading Dad's 8yr old Acer lappy with an SS…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-10-21 21:05:40
Easy Delivery Co (PC)
Get in your Kei truck and chill out, literally, making deliveries to mountain towns in the middle of winter. Can you figure out what's going on around here?
This game performed extremely well on my Garuda Linux PC, without having to use any compatibility tools. In fact the only "complaint" I might have is the achievements never popped. I don't care about those, so it's not a big deal, but something to note perhaps.
I li…